Re: firewall configuring

2012-11-13 Thread Peter Larsen
han editing /etc/sysconfig/iptables. -- Best Regards Peter Larsen Wise words of the day: A Linux machine! Because a 486 is a terrible thing to waste! -- Joe Sloan, j...@wintermute.ucr.edu signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- users mailing list users@

Re: resolv.conf ??

2012-08-09 Thread Peter Larsen
re dhclient is active. I hope this helps. The simple way is to not use dhcp - but that puts the ownership on you to configure dns, ip, masks, routing, ntp etc. Regards Peter Larsen -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: partition question

2012-05-27 Thread Peter Larsen
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 08:45:45PM +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote: > > so as I understand it, my two viable options are a non-destructive > resize or a clean install & use Anaconda to create a blank partition for > use as the second OS (well, I do have a third: I have a brand new 60GB > USB HD that c

Re: Blocked Ports

2012-03-18 Thread Peter Larsen
it's your gateway/firewall that's important. Yes, the ISP may also be blocking you - there are ways to test that too. Be aware, that most ISP/'s condition of use makes it very clear they can disconnect you if they find you're hosting services. Of couse the key word here is

Re: Starting postgres at boot time

2012-03-17 Thread Peter Larsen
o I added that line > to /etc/rc.d/rc.local. However database doesn't start. > > Any Ideas? For Fedora older than F15, use chkconfig - for releases since then, systemctl. Regards Peter Larsen -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: lvm

2012-03-05 Thread Peter Larsen
On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 17:12 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 15:13 -0500, Peter Larsen wrote: > > The "partition type" is something DOS/Windows uses (to a degree) and > > for backwards compatability reasons, you still see MS products use > > these labels.

Re: lvm

2012-03-04 Thread Peter Larsen
On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 00:56 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 05.03.2012 00:35, schrieb Peter Larsen: > > We're not longer using legacy grub. Even with F14 we shipped Grub2 (it > > may even have been included earlier - not sure). We've had this abi

Re: lvm

2012-03-04 Thread Peter Larsen
On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 22:57 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 04.03.2012 22:20, schrieb Peter Larsen: > > On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 21:17 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > >> is this a joke? > > > > Nope. > > > >> > >> you really

Re: lvm

2012-03-04 Thread Peter Larsen
On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 12:44 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 03/04/2012 12:17 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 04.03.2012 21:13, schrieb Peter Larsen: > >> > Only on systems that are dual-booted does > >> > partitions make sense. With Grub2 we can now have a single

Re: lvm

2012-03-04 Thread Peter Larsen
On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 21:17 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > Am 04.03.2012 21:13, schrieb Peter Larsen: > > Only on systems that are dual-booted does > > partitions make sense. With Grub2 we can now have a single partition for > > everything - and the reason we have the partitio

Re: lvm

2012-03-04 Thread Peter Larsen
On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 18:27 +, mike cloaked wrote: > On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Peter Larsen > wrote: > > Patric, > > fdisk (you have to start using -cul instead of -l) reports what-ever the > > partition table contains. It's utterly ignorant to what'

Re: cant ping from behind proxy box

2012-03-04 Thread Peter Larsen
"ping" doesn't use proxies. Again, you're blocked by the proxy server on purpose. Put in another way, you have to provide a router to do that. Not a proxy server. On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 18:51 +0200, Zoltan Szecsei wrote: > On 2012/03/04 18:44, Peter Larsen wrote: > >

Re: cant ping from behind proxy box

2012-03-04 Thread Peter Larsen
7945 > Western Cape, South Africa. > > 34° 6'16.35"S 18°28'5.62"E > > Tel: +27-21-7884897 Mobile: +27-83-6004028 > Fax: +27-86-6115323 www.geograph.co.za > === > -- Best Regards Peter Larsen Wise words of

Re: lvm

2012-03-04 Thread Peter Larsen
ignores those types - they have absolutely no impact on how your system works. Regards Peter Larsen On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 10:54 +, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > fdisk -l gives: > /dev/sda9 174809088 2055290871536 83 Linux > /dev/sda10 205531136

Re: sudoers file

2012-01-15 Thread Peter Larsen
On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 05:28 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > Hi, > > > Any documentation to set up sudoers file apart from man sudoers ? Take a look in /usr/share/doc/sudo* Several examples, read-mes etc. -- Best Regards Peter Larsen Wise words of the day: * Jes wonders

Re: Can I list all users defined in LDAP (on RHEL6 or Fedora) ?

2012-01-03 Thread Peter Larsen
t users defined in LDAP. > > When I run > $ getent passwd login_in_ldap > it works the same like before. > > But I have many scripts where I get list of all users by this command > $ getent passwd > > Can I list all users defined in LDAP? > > -- > Pavel Lisy >

Re: Trends - how to save Fedora ?

2011-11-14 Thread Peter Larsen
me room for snapshots. Otherwise you don't give people the chance of actually using some of the very cool LVM features that help even us laptop users. -- Best Regards Peter Larsen Wise words of the day: Problem solving under Linux has never been the circus that it is under AIX.

Re: Copyright notice on fedoraproject.org

2011-11-10 Thread Peter Larsen
On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 05:12 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 09:06 -0500, Peter Larsen wrote: > > Does the year in the copy right notice mean anything these days? I've > > noticed on some fedoraproject.org pages the (c) notice still say 2010 - > > even though

Copyright notice on fedoraproject.org

2011-11-10 Thread Peter Larsen
pkgdb etc. Not a biggie - to my knowledge the copyright laws were change decades ago doing away with the need for the (c) notice in the first place. -- Best Regards Peter Larsen Wise words of the day: I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere

Re: Removing From email list

2011-10-03 Thread Peter Larsen
ignore the confirmation or delete it without clicking on > the link, you're not removed. Well, that and click on unsubscribe on the page-page that shows up. -- Best Regards Peter Larsen Wise words of the day: NEVER RESPOND TO CRITICAL PRESS. IT IS A GAME YOU CAN ONLY LOSE, A

Re: Not enough info, so no point

2011-05-31 Thread Peter Larsen
y many stages. Be specific or you get the responses you've been given here. -- Best Regards Peter Larsen Wise words of the day: I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern unstoned. -- Ogden Nash, "Everybody's Mind to Me a Kingdom Is&quo

Re: Not enough info, so no point

2011-05-31 Thread Peter Larsen
o be bleeding edge, and you'll be chancing your system failing by using it. Of course as we learn about Fedora and Linux most of us are able to diagnose (with or without community help) and find solutions or work-arounds to problems allowing us to use Fedora as our permanent desktops. But not withou

Re: java problem

2011-01-09 Thread Peter Larsen
On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 22:53 +0530, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > hi, > > I have installed the java (by searching at the net) and just did as > directed. As follows: I wonder what problem is preventing you from simply: yum install @java ?? openjdk/icedtea works fine. -- Best Regards

Re: Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t

2011-01-09 Thread Peter Larsen
o on it as primary OS right now and it works very well actually. I know there's a MeeGo effort under Fedora right now and once I get on the other side of January I plan to join that effort to help getting things put together for Fedora. -- Best Regards Peter Larsen Wise words of the day: We co

Re: Computer transplant -

2011-01-05 Thread Peter Larsen
the hdd out and install it elsewhere and bypass that problem all together. -- Best Regards Peter Larsen Wise words of the day: Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) -- Unknown source signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message par

Re: partition table

2010-12-18 Thread Peter Larsen
You shouldn't name your lvs like pathnames as you did. It is just going to confuse you down the road. A common naming is lv_. Ie lv_root. So to address the lv from lvdisplay you do vg-name/lv-name. It is not a path to a file system location. Lvdisplay only worls from that naming convention.

Re: partition table

2010-12-18 Thread Peter Larsen
No such thing as lvm partition unless you're talking the pv. Fdisk shows your where it is, and pvdisplay gives you the details of the pv. Similar vgdisplay and lvdisplay gives you details of the logical volumes. Patrick Dupre wrote: >Hello, > >How can I display the partition table with lvm pa

Re: Convert ext4 lvm to normal ext4 partition

2010-11-12 Thread Peter Larsen
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 15:57 -0800, Michael Miles wrote: > Peter Larsen wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 10:34 -0800, Michael Miles wrote: > > > I was running bench mark software (Seeker) which showed the huge > difference from benching the boot (187 seeks/second) to t

Re: Convert ext4 lvm to normal ext4 partition

2010-11-12 Thread Peter Larsen
I have a nightly backup to a NAS so the day was saved, and I > then got to do a completely clean install of F14. So maybe LVM is a Good > Thing after all :-) Right - using hard partitions limits you. Getting rid of the hard partitions is the goal. Once grub2 is the default boot manager f

Re: Convert ext4 lvm to normal ext4 partition

2010-11-12 Thread Peter Larsen
t; poc > Agreed, I am just really surprised that Fedora would adopt this method > of storage as it slows down the drive by a huge margin. > That reason alone would say to me' No, don't want this" HUGE MARGIN? Got any documentation to back that one up? There is no - repeat NO

Re: renaming files

2010-11-05 Thread Peter Larsen
dentally expand the selection to be the hole file name, and in that case you'll change the full name. I see no change in behavior there between F12 -> F14. It still only highlights until the last dot (.). -- Best Regards Peter Larsen Wise words of the day: Win95 is not a virus; a vir

Re: Update failes

2010-10-25 Thread Peter Larsen
On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 18:41 +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > Is there a reason why you wait until months (if not years) after a > > Fedora version reaches EOL before upgrading? > No Time Wrong distribution then. -- Best Regards Peter Larsen Wise words of the day: Never tru

Re: Testing disk I/O?

2010-09-22 Thread Peter Larsen
controller/chipset, etc? (Hopefully available in the > fedora repos). Bonnie++ - but to get the real stats it'll need to write to the disk. Don't count on saving existing data on the disk if that's what you plan to do. The read-test from Bonnie++ can be done by smartctl too. -

Re: [OT] e-mail problems

2010-09-16 Thread Peter Larsen
gt; In both instances, you're looking at two things that are REALLY > unrelated to each other in any way. There's nothing to "prove". That would be my opinion too. So in order to really find out what's going on, get a reproduceable case. See if you can email yourself

Re: Fedora13 showed 128 TB /proc/kcore on 2GB RAM

2010-07-12 Thread Peter Larsen
uite large. That's normal. They're not meant to be written/read by normal processes. So simply exclude the non persistent mount points, temporary and "cd/usb" mount points when you do a system dump like that. -- Best Regards Peter Larsen Wise words of the day: Stupid ni

get-fedora export restrictions

2010-06-23 Thread Peter Larsen
allowed as long as there's an approval from the Department of Commerce. Now - I may be wrong here about the restrictions when it comes to Iraq. If I am, my final comment would be why get-fedora doesn't block downloads from the countries mentioned? Isn't that in violation of the listed

Re: using sudo

2010-05-24 Thread Peter Larsen
su -c visudo Sudo isn't a gui app, so there's no gui option to maintain it. -- Best Regards Peter Larsen Wise words of the day: MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development. -- dmegg...@aix1.uottawa.ca signature.asc Desc

Re: SELinux error booting backup f12

2010-05-23 Thread Peter Larsen
In short, selinux=0 turns off selinux. enforcing=0 disables it. Meaning if these are your current parameters you are not using it. jackson byers wrote: >Daniel J Walsh wrote > >> You can boot with selinux=0 or enforcing=0. enforcing=0 means that >> SELinux will block nothing, but maintain the

Re: Preupgrade??

2010-05-04 Thread Peter Larsen
oot partition and help resolve issues like upgrade needing more space temporarily. -- Best Regards Peter Larsen Wise words of the day: netgod: 8:42pm is not late. doogie: its 2:42am in Joeyland -- #Debian signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- users mailing

Re: abrt making no sense

2010-01-17 Thread Peter Larsen
ed exactly the same. And make sure it's the same address (as above) that is used by bugzilla. > Seems to me abrt needs a technical writer who knows English. > Badly. I'm sure the project would appreciate your help; ABRT is an application like any others; use bugzilla